Rexburg Schmexburg

SO. its been a while. part, in fact, was because I forgot the password to this thing and I didnt have the time or know how to go through the whole process of remembering. Also, we have been packing up, traveling, and enjoying our time since leaving rexburg for two weeks to spend it in CA [or home as they call it] to be with our wonderful families.

We finished the semester strong-it was definetly a balancing act between finals, projects, callings, traveling and trying to maintain a social life; but in the end both of us finished with straight A's, 4.0's and friends to come back to! So it was a success.

That friday, we packed it up, deep cleaned the apartment so we'd have a nice fresh home to come back to, and piled in the car with giddy to head to utah. The roads were pretty bad-we even saw a semi turned over which made the drive a little longer-but while Lester slept, Giddy and I just enjoyed the wonderful talks we have, and laughed alot. She is such and incredible friend. We arrived at her family's house, where they fed us really well, and just had alot of fun-i LOVE her family. They made us feel so at home and welcome-it reminded me alot of like the mexican version of my family haha, and I missed Chio alot as a result. But it was good.

The next day we checked into our motel, and spent time with the Pineda's who had come to pick us up. We went to the David Archuleta Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert which was AMAZING-although for me Micheal York [aka Captain Crane for all you Avonlea fans] stole the show. Then we went to the Roof for dinner/dessert. For church the next day, we went to what is allegedly the Prophet's ward in the joseph smith memorial building. It was their Christmas program, and it was great. Then we started the long drive home-again the roads were bad, but we made it in fine at 2:00 in the morning.

Now we are here, enjoying this time to remember our Savior's birth, and the blessings we get as a result of that. We are happy to be home with the people we love and miss throughout the years. I have lots more to blog about, but I will do so later...I must get back to baking and christmas movies for one last night before the blessed day is here! MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL! We love you.

Us w/ good old Santa himself at our ward party!

Lester, Eric & Erica & I made the temple in our gingerbread house contest!

We had an FHE where we called up some of our friends-we brought the sugar cookies and frosting and our friend Steph came up w/ some fun games! This is us frosting!

In one of the games the boys vs girls had to blow up and stuff balloons in the stockings, then stick it on the head first-this ensued afterwards haha!

more FHE!

Our wonderful family friends the Villaromen's came over for dinner the night Lauren graduated-it was SO fun to see them!

My cute hubby and I!

New Calling!

Today Brother Blakely [a counselor in our bishopric] called at about 7:45. I heard it ring. I even watched it vibrate. Aaaand I ignored it. I remember thinking to myself, who in the world would call me this early in the morning when we don't meet for church until 9:30? Don't they know who we are?

I turned over and tried to go back to sleep-but I couldn't. So I listened to the voicemail where they asked if we could meet them today, as soon as possible. I assumed it was a calling, but I had just gotten one in compassionate service a few weeks ago. But Lester and I decided that even though we wanted to sleep, it must be important so we went.

and guess what? I WAS RIGHT! I am now the 1st counselor in the Primary Presidency! I cant even begin to describe how excited I am about this! They sustained me in sacrament meeting today, and set me apart after church. My friend Catherine is the president and I can't wait to be serving under her and with the kids! Its almost like an early Christmas present-hopefully I'll do good. I'm a little nervous, bc I've never done this before, but again mostly just excited. So that's whats up right now!

[guess I'd better brush up on my primary songs haha!]